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From VAP to VAE: Implications of the New CDC Definitions on a Burn Intensive Care Unit Population
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From VAP to VAE: Implications of the New CDC Definitions on a Burn Intensive Care Unit Population

Anne M Lachiewicz, David J Weber, David van Duin, Shannon S Carson, Lauren M DiBiase, Samuel W Jones, William A Rutala, Bruce A Cairns and Emily E Sickbert-Bennett
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.38(7), pp.867-869
07/01/2017
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.63
PMCID: PMC5609707
PMID: 28413996

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Abstract

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a frequent complication of severe burn injury. Comparing the current ventilator-associated event-possible VAP definition to the pre-2013 VAP definition, we identified considerably fewer VAP cases in our burn ICU. The new definition does not capture many VAP cases that would have been reported using the pre-2013 definition. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:867-869.
Adult Aged Burn Units - statistics & numerical data Burns - therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S Female Humans Incidence Male Middle Aged Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated - epidemiology Terminology as Topic Trauma Severity Indices United States - epidemiology

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